[tei-council] Afnor Info

[Lou Burnard]

Council Members attending next months meeting at AFNOR are recommended 
to book themselves into any one of the hotels in the region around Gare 
du Nord, Paris: in the 10eme.  I have no particular recommendation on 
this subject and there are dozens of websites which will do a better job 
than me. Laurent who is a creature of habit always stays at the same 
hotel  -- the Ibis Gare de L'est --  but if someone is willing to put 
effort into researching a better alternative they should do so!

I can however provide some useful information about getting to AFNOR :

Directions to AFNOR:

Association Française de Normalisation
11, avenue Francis de Pressensé
93571 Saint-Denis La Plaine Cedex

Tel. : (0)1 41 62 80 00
Fax : (0)1 49 17 90 00

But you really really don't want to go there except for a meeting, which 
is done as follows:

Take the RER (high speed metro) train from Gare du Nord in the direction 
of Roissy (Charles de Gaulle) airport, making sure *not* to get on a 
train which is going non-stop-to-the-airport. You can buy tickets from 
machines at Gare du Nord (your destination is outside the usual Metro 
zone, so your average metro ticket isn't good enough). Leave the train 
at La Stade de France, which should be the first stop (unless as 
aforesaid you've got on the wrong train, in which case you have no 
choice but to proceed towards the airport and then come back again). It 
takes about 10-15 minutes.

As you walk out of the station, you will see directly ahead of you a 
large white circular building labelled AFNOR. Walk down the nice 
tree-lined street towards it, taking care not to get killed crossing the 
intersection in front of it.  This is France. They drive their cars fast 
and on the wrong side of the road.

Do we have any idea what time the meeting will start on Thursday? I 
have  an engagement in London on the Weds evening, which may finish too 
late for me to get the last train that evening; in which case I may be 
arriving Thurs morning with a bad hangover....

Lou